Castro's sister says no word from Cuba on memoir

By The Associated Press
| 10:02 a.m.Oct. 27, 2009

FILE - In a Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006 file photo, Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, talks to reporters about her brother in Miami. Castro, 76, Fidel Castro's younger sister, told Univision's WLTV-23 station in Miami late Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 that she collaborated with the CIA in 1964 following the Cuban revolution. She said she initially supported her brother's 1959 overthrow of the Batista dictatorship but quickly became disillusioned by the revolution's vast number of executions and rampant expropriation of private property. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
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FILE - In a Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006 file photo, Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, talks to reporters about her brother in Miami. Castro, 76, Fidel Castro's younger sister, told Univision's WLTV-23 station in Miami late Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 that she collaborated with the CIA in 1964 following the Cuban revolution. She said she initially supported her brother's 1959 overthrow of the Batista dictatorship but quickly became disillusioned by the revolution's vast number of executions and rampant expropriation of private property. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
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MIAMI 
Fidel Castro's sister says she hasn't heard any reaction from Cuba to revelations in her new memoir that she collaborated for years with the CIA.

Juanita Castro supported her brother's 1959 overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista but began passing information to the CIA in 1961 after becoming disillusioned with the revolution.

She tells The Associated Press that Castro knew she was helping anti-communists but she doesn't think he knew about the CIA connection.

Castro said she hasn't spoken to either Fidel or their brother, Cuban President Raul Castro, since she left the island in 1964. She says relations between the two countries have improved under President Barack Obama, but little will truly change until Cuba moves toward a democratic government.